San Francisco Shock vs. New York Excelsior (Playoffs | Losers Bracket) - FINAL


Playoffs • Losers Bracket


#3 San Francisco Shock
 
#2 New York Excelsior

Final Score • First to Four

 
 
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Victory!
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Rules of Season Playoffs

  • Each Overwatch League Season Playoff match continue to play until a team wins 4 maps. If there is a draw, neither team will be awarded with a map win.
  • For the starting map, the team with the higher seed will select the starting map for the scheduled map type. The lower seed will select to whether attack or defend.
  • For the every map in succession, the team that lost the previous round select the next map for the scheduled map type. The winning team will select to whether attack or defend. In the event of a draw, the selections goes to the most recent previous round that did not end in a draw.
  • The Season Playoffs is a Double Elimination event. The winner of this round will advance to play against the Vancouver Titans on Sunday, September 29th. The loser is eliminated.

Click here for overall 2019 Overwatch League Changes
  • The Atlanta Reign, Paris Eternal, Toronto Defiant, and Washington Justice will join the Atlantic Division.
  • The Chengdu Hunters, Guangzhou Charge, Hangzhou Spark, and Vancouver Titans will join the Pacific Division.
  • All teams will play a 28-match schedule this season, down from 40 from the 2018 season.
  • The All-Star Game and other skills competitions will be held between Stages 2 and 3.
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  • The prize pool for the 2019 season is $5 million, up from $3.5 million in 2018.
  • Stage Playoffs Prize Pool (for each of Stage 1, 2, and 3):
    •Winner gets $200K
    •Runner-up gets $100K
    •3rd and 4th place teams get $50K each
    •5th through 8th place teams get $25K each
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    •Champion gets $1.1M
    •Runner-up gets $600K
    •3rd place team gets $450K
    •4th place team gets $350K
    •5th and 6th place teams get $300K each
    •7th and 8th place teams get $200K each
  • The map pool for each stage has been expanded to 12 maps.
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Fun thought… If San Francisco wins this but then loses to the Titans in the Grand Finals, it will have made the entire Overwatch League postseason pointless as the Shock are second place in overall regular season record (they are #3 seed as they share the same division with the Titans).

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man…out of the remaining three teams my favorite is still nyxl, so im hoping they can do this, but i also want shock to defeat the titans

Its sad for me that this is the last day of the Blizzard Arena (most likely for good). I had so much fun each week I visited the arena.

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cool adventure … are they dissassembling arena for good?

There is no confirmation, but I think so. They’ve closed the Blizzard Arena Taipei and just recently closed the MLG Arena in Columbus (for Call of Duty’s new World League now a city-based franchise system). I will be keeping on eye on esports.blizzard.com, but I don’t think any more major events will be played there.

thought that LA Glads and Valiants will share it when OWL goes out to rotate among different cities

For the 2020 season both will be playing at the Novo (where the L.A. Valiant homestand was played at). In 2021, the Gladiators will have their own decided space of some sort once the sports complex at Inglewood is completed (L.A. Rams new home).

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that clip of ryujehong crying after that loss still breaks my heart

personally i am pissed that they made it so darn expensive to join league… imagine if teams could pop up all arround world… league would grow

but they are rolling back everything instead

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Poor moth… to be immortalized as an emote…

I’m hoping XL can pull this one out. I’d really like to see them get a season win with their current roster. They’re just so consistently good through any meta. Libero is also probably the best flex player in the league. Honestly, though, I’d be happy with any of the teams left winning it all now that Atlanta is out…get wrecked, Dogman.

Adding on to this, if NYXL wins this and then loses to the Titans in the Grand Finals, the playoff eliminations will have proceeded by the order of the seeds.

Put simply:

  • If NYXL wins, then the playoff eliminations proceeded by the seeds.
  • But if the Shock wins, then the playoff eliminations proceeded by where the teams finished in the standings at the end of the season

(Remember, NYXL actually finished in 3rd in the season standings, but they are the 2-seed because of winning the Atlantic Division)

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And this is why I subscribe to Puckett’s streams…

Overwatch concept artists are in the house again…

I’ll be watching properly in an hour or so, but my Niners take priority. Let’s go Shock though

sbb’s death blossoms have been on/off all playoffs so he needs to be more consistent this game to help his team win

I have no inkling as to who’s gonna win this match.